Koizora is a 2007 film based on a cell phone novel of the same name. Mika Tahara loses her cellular phone, but later finds it in the school library with the help of an unknown caller. Throughout the summer, Mika and…
Facilitating China’s economic rise is one of the central issues for the world economy. Based on his recent book Eclipse, the author will argue that strategic distrust between the world’s major economies can be…
In the conventional understanding of Chinese history, the Song dynasty (960-1279) appears as a period during which civil officials, fortified by a renewal of Confucian values and recruited through an expanded civil…
This paper discusses how prevalent dietary beliefs contributed to the literary motif of spatiotemporal displacement in narratives written in early medieval China (approx. 2nd–5th centuries CE). In this repertoire of…
This talk examines China’s important and changing relationship with the Middle East, especially with regard to the recent tumultuous events there following several uprisings and revolutions across North Africa and…